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: Shot first alien. It died. I am the strongest. I am the best. I am smart.

Gun too small though.

Name: Cirno
Preferences (weapons, stats, etc): Heavy Cannon, High Bravery
Bio: I'm the strongest!
Base Location: Northern Japan
Base Name: Fortress ⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨
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"Turn there spaceships and colonies into stardust! There's not enough room in our local system to support two colonies! And if there is, what do we need competition for? To slow down our own progress?"

Thank you everyone for your great recommendations. I am truly in awe at your knowledge. First on the list are Lufia II and Tales of Phantasia, which I hadn't heard of before this point.

I'm thinking I might also get myself a PS Vita for New Year's. The PSP was well-known for its emulation and homebrew capabilities, how does the Vita compare? I know that lots of great PSP titles are sold through its store

The PSP has a pretty tight kicking homebrew scene. I personally never got into it; I mostly stuck to the sides. As for the Vita, I don't know but in general just be careful with the Sony firmware updates. They have a tendency to brick your system or keep certain apps from playing.

Also I fudged up on my response earlier to you. The Playstation store has a lot of early PS1 classic JRPGS for sale; they're not too expensive but they do make themselves easy to download and play.

I've got $65 USD worth of steam credit, and I'm looking for some good zombie survival games in the vein of Day Z or Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Any suggestions?

I already mentioned these two games before, they're both pretty good but single player. Also I got another Zombie Survival game so I don't look completely lazy, Lone Survivor, it's got more elements of psychological horror in it with a 2D look.

There's also State of Decay a single player zombie survival game that uses an interchangeable permadeath character system to scavenge for supplies and manage various base group aspects. Finally there's Rouge Survivor (pick the download link from blogsite) another zombie game but more rougelike, it's currently an abandoned title but for what it's worth there's much fun to be had with its current state: randomly generated city districts, competent AI, city generation and game difficulty editor and various mob entities.

If you're looking for something trippy, try out Middens. There is some combat, but most of it is exploration in a psychedelic setting. It's totally open and quite easy to get lost, but it's fun just to wander and see what you can find in out-of-the-way corners.

There is a plot and story, though, and an ending.

It's looks like if Salvador Dali came back to life to design a video game! Downloading now

Try Space Funeral. It has little combat, is super surreal and it's free.

WTH? Apparently it's only about 30-60mins long... eh why not I'll give a try!

Know there was some flash game a while back I've since forgotten

You're talking about Caravaneer right? It's a strategic grid tile TBRPG with a supply and demand trade simulator to it based in a post apocalyptic natural disaster world. The first time through it's actually quite fun, second time you already know how to break the game so it's actually even better the second time. Try playing through a second time with just a single Caravaneerer, tis much fun.

There was also a kickstarter earlier for a sequel so keep an eye out for that.

I don't know, if that's what the Bro's of the senate want. Mehbeh.

There's sarcasm in that statement right?

http://www.codeforce.co.nz/overview.asp
http://www.codeforce.co.nz/features.asp
- overview + some features of Distant Worlds

but if your a bito n the TL;DR side of things: Distant Worlds is a space 4X!

Anyhow like I said, its subject to change and I'm certainly ok with simplifying it!

Ohhh pretty, is there an end game state or does this kind of thing go on forever?

I assume you've played the major Yume Nikki fan games? Maybe Proteus? It's not that trippy but it is explorationy.

I've played Yume Nikki and ilk into the ground. I took a look into Proteus and my god dat early 3D inspired retro videogame FPS presentation, unfortunately it's not what I'm looking for. :\

MirrorMoon EP and Proteus are my top picks. I prefer the former to the latter but I never got into this hyper-experimental genre myself.

MirrorMoon EP on the other hand looks pretty damn interesting. I'll give it a try after I'm done playing AntiChamber.

Now recommend me a classic console RPG (also known as JRPG), preferably with 2D graphics. Cannot be NES (or that era), cannot be Chrono Trigger, EarthBound, or in the Final Fantasy series.

There's the tales series, Tales of Phantasia is pretty damn good there's an english translation floating around on the internet for the SNES version and if you have the time and money you can get the GBA version there's also versions for the PS and PSP but those are in japanese.

Then there's Bahamut Lagoon (SNES english translation), it's like if Final Fantasy and Fire Emblem had a baby, with a dragon raising system.

I'm also with varsovie on the Dragon Quest games. I'm more towards the remakes of DQ3, the versions for the SNES (translated) and GBC are definitely worth most of your time.

If you have a PS3 there's also a great handful of classic PS1 JRPGs, if you have a PSP you can also upload it into the system for convenient on the road fun; I'm currently going through FF9  and am probably going to try Parasite Eve next!

Thought of the perfect one, A Cosmic Forest is exactly what you're looking for. http://7dfps.com/?action=games&id=155
There's also Noby Noby boy, which is less explorey but very trippy.

I just gave Cosmic Forest a go, it's certainly up there in visual uniqueness but it's gameplay and lack of direction doesn't chaff well with me.

What's this Noby Noby Boy stuff ab  ou-t...?

Holy cah-rahp! it looks like if the developers of Katamari made their game with just one more hit of acid!?

And Gwahd bless us (or just have a nice day) everyone!

Yeah, I've just got too much to do right now. Luck will result in, at best, a few minutes to worry about how much design I'm not doing. Plenty of time for that, but not enough to scratch out any ideas I haven't already.

Luck will only last so long. If it's really that important than you're going to have to sacrifice a few things here and there. BLOOD DOWNTIME FOR THE PRODUCTIVITY GOD!